This guy.

I'm forever grateful I married him. 

I know I'll be saying this every year, but we continue to know each other better and better. 

Growing up can be difficult, but I'm SO glad I get to go through it with Jensen. 

He's so positive. He's taught me to look at life in a more optimistic way. 

I feel like I've become more mature and confident in myself since we've been married.

I know he's ALWAYS there to support and help me. 

He's also there to be fair and objective to teach me things about life which I really appreciate, because he knows it will make me more happy. 
He's humble and patient with me. And vise verse haha ;-)

Also, if anyone knows Jensen well, they know that he is the king of quotes. I swear he watches something ONCE, and he know ALL the quotes. I have no idea how he does it!! 
He remembers the most random phrases too. Quotes from commercials, movies, TV shows, what have you. He has a very quick, serious, and sarcastic sense of humor. 
Which I find hilarious (obviously) and I wanted to be like that too. 
I admire how he never gets offended easily, which is something I have been working on (such a girl thing to do right?? And I didn't grow up with brothers) 
Now I have to say that I'm much better at being sarcastic and can totally think quick on my feet like him :-) It's so funny because I was terrible with quotes before we were married. I could barely remember anything. 
I was really slow at quoting the few lines I could recall, but it's really funny and amazing how you can totally change the way you think. We've had lots of good laughs :-)

I also really love that he's a great communicator. I wasn't before we were married, and I'm still working on it. But I've definitely improved with that too. 
Even though learning can be hard sometimes, I'm thankful that I get to learn and grow with him. 

I love that he is my best friend. We can talk about ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. Anything gospel related, stuff about life and marriage, etc. I even talk with him about my makeup, hair, and nails. And he has no idea about any of that stuff but still listens sweetly. And I do the same when he goes on about sports and starts speaking football/basketball vernacular. I've even made an effort to know basketball players, since I care more about that than football since he's a basketball player. 
We have funny nicknames for some of them haha. 

I love him so much. Can't believe how blessed I am. So grateful I chose him for eternity. I don't know how I'd survive without him. I need him. Always. 
And I know that he needs me and he loves me. We are perfect for each other. 

Now here are some pictures!

We went to the beloved Cheesecake Factory for our anniversary as well. I had been telling Jensen for like the past month that I've been craving fried mac and cheese. 
I ate so much. It was wonderful. Such a lovely anniversary! 


P.S. Yup. I said sayonara to my blonde hair! FOREVER. 
I didn't like it the first day I got it done, but then after a week I really started to love it.
I was so sick of seeing my dark roots as a blonde like even a week after getting my hair done. I couldn't take it anymore! So now I LOVE MY HAIR COLOR. 
I actually cringe a little looking at pictures of me blonde because I actually feel so much prettier as a brunette. 
I know. It's crazy because I was blonde for so long. 
I thought I was "prettier" as a blonde. NOPE not anymore.
I love how natural looking it is and Jensen says it brings out my green eyes :-)  
This is me. I was born with this color. So now I'm owning it. 




Stay Classy,

It's been a while since I've posted something. 

Like a month already I think. 

I'm searching for a job, again. 

But if I can't find anything by the end of March then I'll most likely get a receptionist job at Stevens Henager College. 

Much better hours. It's the standard 8-5, weekends off.

The girl I know who works there says the job won't be available until then, but if I can't find anything I'll come in for an interview.

I'm still searching anyways until then.

I'm excited we're in February now! 

That means spring and summer is getting closer! 

Wanna know what's really sad? 

When you think that 30 degrees is somewhat WARM. 

WOW. 

Because compared to 9 degrees this is so much better. Right now it's 34. The high today is supposed to be 38. 

Don't get me wrong, 34 is very cold, but it's definitely much warmer than 9. 

A little while ago I was wondering if I'll forget how cold it is here when we move back to California. 

I probably will after awhile. 

At first I'll be like "YAY I can wear peep toe heels in January again!!!! No more snow!! Palm trees!!" Lol.

And after awhile I'll be used to it and I'll call 50 degrees cold again. 

 But that's what this blog is for! 

Because then I can reread past posts and have empathy, not just sympathy, for people living here or anywhere like here.

It's been awhile! I've been so busy. Especially last week. I worked a ton last week! Including a 10 hour Black Friday shift. Ouch. Yeah, not fun.

But Thanksgiving was good. Delicious food! We went to Jensen's grandma's house. His parents and sister came up and stayed with us. It was fun! 
I wasn't around much because I was always at work.

We couldn't go down to San Diego because of my job :-(
Sorry, I'm grateful to have a job and yet sometimes I can barely stand it. 
Guess that goes with pretty much every job though.

We don't know if we'll be able to go home for Christmas. 

Just writing that, I could cry.  

I talked with my manager and she said that she'll try to do something where my shifts will be advertised so others can pick them up.

The ONLY way that we'll be able to come down is if people cover my shifts.

But for some reason Macy's isn't hiring very many people. I have no idea why.

My counter manager said Macy's is desperate for people, so maybe people just aren't applying. Great. So there are lots of shifts, and not very many people.

I won't even know my schedule until two weeks ahead of time. So we're waiting. 
We won't know anything for another 2 weeks. 

And I'm going to nicely tell my manager again about getting that time off really soon.

 Pleeeeeease let my husband and I be with our families for Christmas!! 

  
In the meantime, I just beat Donkey Kong tonight. So now I need another video game lol. 
I don't know why I love the Wii so much. No other game console is more fun to me.  
So I'm very grateful for that when Jensen is busy with homework. 

What else, we just became Netflix users recently! We started watching the show Once Upon a Time. It's so good! I love that it's all about fairytale characters. 
I love anything fairytale/Disneyland-ish.

I can never make up my mind about my hair color. I got some lowlights in, but now I want to go back to blonde.  I don't like the maintenance, that's why I got lowlights. 
But I feel prettier blonde. 
Isn't that funny? It's nowhere near my natural hair color lol.
I have to deal with either darker roots, or darker hair... I might take the the darker roots, because overall I'll still be blonde. 
I started getting highlights when I was 12. So I was blonde for years and became so comfortable with it. Anything else feels weird to me. 
Plus I'm so white right now and these lowlights aren't helping. 

Sorry about my girly rantings! I think I'll go to sleep now.